Entries Tagged as 'aging'

Tuesday, May 31st, 2011

Horst David : 75 year old gymnast

via youtube.com Horst David, 75 year old gymnast: “Horst was born July 15, 1935—into a family of gymnasts. Gymnastics was a family tradition; everyone trained and competed. Horst began competing when he was seven. He often rode his bike long distances to competitions. (Jurgen explains that it was difficult to be a gymnast in Dornbirn [...]

Monday, May 30th, 2011

Ernestine Shepherd, World’s Oldest Female Bodybuilder, Muscles Her Way Into Guinness World Records (VIDEO)

via weirdnews.aol.com Calorie restriction with optimal nutrition (CRON) is one of the few life extension regimens that has solid scientific backing. However, many of the people who I know practice CRON look like famine victims — skinny, gaunt, weak. Ernestine, and other older bodybuilders such as Clarence Bass have better bodies than many people in [...]

Thursday, April 7th, 2011

I am a 91-year-old bodybuilder

via guardian.co.uk “Then at 85 I had a crisis. I looked at myself in the mirror one day, and saw an old man. I was overweight, my posture was terrible and there was skin hanging off me where muscle used to be. I looked like a wreck. I started to consider the fact that I [...]

Monday, November 8th, 2010

Louis CK – Turning 40

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Wednesday, August 18th, 2010

“Age & Treachery” – Tough Mudder Training

via rosstraining.com Via Ross training. “The video below was sent to [Ross] by a proud daughter. Within the clip, you’ll see her parents (who are also grandparents) training for the Tough Mudder obstacle course. In the words of their daughter, “One of the things I like the best is they do a lot of training [...]

Tuesday, April 27th, 2010

On the social benefits of old men chasing younger women

 It turns out that older men chasing younger women contributes to human longevity and the survival of the species, according to new findings by researchers at Stanford and the University of California-Santa Barbara. Evolutionary theory says that individuals should die of old age when their reproductive lives are complete, generally by age 55 in [...]

Tuesday, March 9th, 2010

Stem Cells Heal Dog on Local News. Will Humans Ever Get Their Turn? (video) | Singularity Hub

Chances are your dog has access to stem cell treatments more advanced than your own. A Fox News affiliate in Atlanta has picked up on a local story of a dog, named Behr, who could barely run a year ago, but who is now frolicking like a puppy. The secret to Behr’s success? He underwent [...]

Wednesday, February 17th, 2010

The Case For An Older Woman « OkTrends

via blog.okcupid.com “…As you can see, a man, as he gets older, searches for relatively younger and younger women. Meanwhile his upper acceptable limit hovers only a token amount above his own age. The median 31 year-old guy, for example, sets his allowable match age range from 22 to 35—nine years younger, but only four [...]

Friday, February 12th, 2010

BBC News – Today – When time flies

By a surreptitious switching of stopwatches, the study at the University of St. Thomas in Minnesota was able to make those taking part in the experiment believe that a task had lasted 10 minutes, while in reality it lasted either five or 20. “In controlled circumstances we could manipulate people’s feelings of time quite easily,” [...]

Thursday, January 14th, 2010

How much time is enough?

via youtube.com Posted via web from crasch’s posterous